According to a new study, some Icelandic orcas have very high concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls(PCBs) in their blubber but other orcas from the same population have levels of PCBs that…
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Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Viktoria Abramchenko confirmed earlier today that the government has prepared amendments to a draft Federal law to permanently ban the capture of wild cetaceans (dolphins and…
Loro Parque has reported that there are concerns over the health of Ula at Loro Parque, Tenerife. Born to Morgan at the park in September 2018, the facility has reported…
Lung damage, hunger and disorientation have been cited as the factors that led a pod of 52 short-finned pilot whales to strand earlier this year on Madura Island, Indonesia. 34…
Trained to perform tricks for the visiting public for most of their lives, the dolphins held at Dolfinarium Harderwijk will no longer do so following an investigation commissioned by the…
Marine Connection very much welcomed the news earlier this month on the passing of a ban on the keeping of cetaceans in captivity by the Capital Region of Brussels. We…
Vancouver Aquarium has transferred ownership of the Stanley Park facility to a privately owned tourism company based in the United States, Herschend Enterprises. The facility has been closed for most…
Having seen reports over the weekend that the dolphin known internationally as Fungie had been spotted off the Kinsale coast of Ireland, we doubted that the dolphin in question was…
Four whaling boats left Japanese ports at the weekend for coastal waters as the country entered its third commercial whaling season since ending its relationship and formally leaving the International…
Seaspiracy is a powerful feature-length documentary that unearths the environmental impact of fishing. Launched on Netflix only last week, it’s already trending as one of its Top 10 most-watched films…
